I might be. The Wolfram|Alpha “computational knowledge engine” has been generating buzz for some time, especially since Stephen Wolfram, its eccentric progenitor, announced that it would be going live in mid-May. Expect the twittering to reach a crescendo. Since the Wolfram|Alpha (WA, let’s say) promises to answer questions typed into a simple text box, it’s …
It’s taken long enough, but Clayfox has shaken off summer dreams to engage with a little edu-distopia, 2007-style. Michael L. Wesch, the Kansas State University anthropology prof who brought the YouTube-fueled world a much-referenced little primer on Web 2.0 some time back, has had his students produce a new video, this one a decidedly grim …
Last year at the ARL symposium called Managing Digital Assets, I smiled inwardly to think of the grumbling likely to be kicked off by observations such as this by Donald Waters of the Mellon Foundation: …what unites our interest in digitization and open access in a digital world is that the material becomes ‘processable,’ or …
